Unit 4 News 24/7Active Reading (1)Reading and Understanding3. Choose the best answer to the questions1.c2.a3.c4.d5.a6. a7.cDealing with unfamiliar words4. Answer the questions about the words in the box.1. No, it is made more exciting in some way.2. A very long time, centuries.3. They should follow the guidelines.4. They should check the source.5. They live in poverty.6. It is image.7. It is element.5. Match the words in the box with their definitions.1.chase2.trainee3.erode4.odd5.horror6.startle7.echo8.reaction9.frame6. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in Activity 5.1.reactions…horror2.chase3.echoes4.startled5.trainees6.eroded7.oddest8. frame7. Answer the questions about the words.1.a2.b3.a4.b5.b6.aReading and interpreting8. Decide what evidence there is for the following statements. If there is no evidence, decide what the passage really says.1. This is not the passage. It is noted that bad news is common, but no judgment as to the desirability or otherwise of this is given.2. Many people, we are told, reacted in the same way to bad news in the case of 9/11 and the assassination of President Kennedy, so such a reaction is normal.3. Yes, as and example is given of people feeling a need to pass on the bad news they had heard. (See pare 2: Their first instinct was to go and tell someone else about it.)4. Yes. (See para4: We seek the odd and unexpected.)5. Not stated –the passage says such issues never seem to have the same impact because the stories are ongoing and not reported in all newspapers on the same day, but bit by bit here and there.6. Immediacy is part of news so such an item is certainly potentially news, but of course it might be too trivial to really be considered such.7. Yes, mostly.8. No. Paragraph 8 says the camera position has an important effect on how viewers understand the story.9. The passage mentions people talk of the power of the press, but does not really comment on it; though the use of the rather negative covertly might hint disapproval.9. Decide why italics are used in the sentences.1. To take the place of quotation marks.2. For emphasis.3. To give the name of a newspaper.4. To introduce a new term.Active Reading (2)Dealing with unfamiliar words3. Match the words and expressions in the box with their definitions.1.assignment2.editorial3.revenue4.close down5.survey6.rely on7. feedback8.bureau4. Complete the conversation with the correct form of the words and expressions in Activity3.1.assignment2.bureau3.rely on4.feedback5.surveys6.editorial7.revenue8.close down5. Replace the underlined words with the correct form of the words in the box.1.capture2.extablished; Nevertheless3.estates4.integritypact; Moreover6.journalism6. Answer the questions about the words and expressions.1.b2.a3.a4.b5.b6.a7.a8.a9.bReading and interpreting7. Look at the sentences from the passage and choose the best meaning.1.a2.a3.b4.b5.a6.bLanguage in useWord formation1.Replace the underlined words with compounds made from down and the words inbrackets.1.downtown2.download3.downgrade4.downstairs5.downmarket6.downturn2. Replace the underlined words with phrasal verbs made from the verbs in brackets and down.1.go down2.turned me down3.run down4.stand down5.got down6.handed down7.brought down8.broke down3. Rewrite the sentences using by someone + participle.1.The late-night edition of the paper was bought by a lot of people interested in the results of the match.2. The princess was followed across the town by photographers determined to get a photo of her.3. The programme was watched by millions of people hoping to win the star prize.4. The alarm was set off by tow children startled to hear a noise in the back room.5. The police were contacted by one of the boys’ mothers worried that he might have got lost.6. The front-page headlines were changed by the editor hoping to be the first to break the news.7. Online editions of the news papers are being read by more and more people not wanting to buy the traditional edition.So + inversion + that4. Rewrite the sentences using So + inversion + that.1. So odd was the newsreader’s accent that I couldn’t understand what she was saying.2. So incredibly bad was the language on that programme that I switched off the TV.3. So exaggerated was the story that it had to be completely rewritten.5. So great was the distance from one region to the next that we had to travel by plane.6. So slow were Frank’s reactions that he wasn’t able to avoid hitting the car in front.5. Translate the sentences into Chinese.1. 一个事件光有客观重要性还不够—世界上有大量全球性的大问题，都会造成戏剧性的后果，从贫困问题到全球变暖问题—但由于它们都是进行中的，并不都会在同一天成为头条。